Overlooking Quotes

I`ve had few dull moments (in my life) and not too many sad and defeated ones. In saying this I am by no means overlooking the rough and rocky years I`ve lived through. But I was not brought up thinking life would be easy. I always expected to work hard for my money and to get nothing I did not earn. And the bad years, it seems to me, were so few that only a dyed-in-the-wool grouch who enjoys feeling sorry for himself would complain.

We`ve got to expect a war. Everybody`s overlooking this team, but this is a very good team.

I was on this bridge overlooking the carpet... I think it went all the way back to Oregon.

I am not overlooking any mail. I`m looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another`s defects, and the bearing of one another`s burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.

This means so much to me to be fighting in my hometown. I`m not overlooking or disrespecting my opponent but I have to score a knockout when I`m fighting at home.

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self`s actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

"Glenn Miller okayed it for me to come and sing with the band for two weeks. Well, I had to get an okay from my father who had to get an okay from the school board. But, everything was worked out, and I sang with the Glenn Miller Band for two weeks at the Glen Island Casino. It was like a movie set! I`d never worked a place like that! (in) Oklahoma we don`t have that kind of water! We were right on the New England Sound. When I got up to sing, my God! I was overlooking the water... and the moon... I thought it was just wonderful!"